Select company: firm bases interactive kids' video on 'Choose Your Own Adventure'.(Media & Entertainment)(Lean Forward Media )

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: July 10, 2006| Author: Riley-Katz, Anne | Copyright information

FOR upstart producers Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton, "Choose Your Own Adventure" isn't just the name of their new interactive DVD series. It's how they started their business.

Their Beverly Hills-based firm Lean Forward Media is poised in two weeks to debut its updated version of the 1980s-era hit children's book series by Raymond A. Montgomery. The Bantam Books series spanned 184 titles between 1979 and 1998, with more than 250 million books in print.

The ...

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